Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion

by Susan Miller and Susan Beth Miller

Book Overview

Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (The Shame Experience TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; Shame in Context TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little attention in the professional literature. For Miller, the psychological study of disgust revolves around boundary issues: We tend to feel disgusted about things (from bodily processes to decaying organic matter to ethnic attributes of "foreign"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138005754
• ISBN13: 9781138005754
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"